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NAMI: La. has 9th highest jobless rate for mentally ill

NAMI: La. has 9th highest jobless rate for mentally ill

Photo illustration from freeimages.com -- Louisiana had the ninth-highest jobless rate among people receiving public mental health services, according to a report issued by the National Alliance on Mental Illness.

Roughly 60 percent of the 7.1 million people receiving public mental health services national want to work. But the unemployment rates for those individuals dwarfs even those that took place during the Great Recession. Gilberti said the United States must do better.